@lowlypeon The most recent brick (I didn’t buy it) seems somewhat better than the old ones for leakage, but they still don’t have the reliability or runtime of the others I’ve used. Last month, two leakers out of eight in a fluorescent emergency lantern damaged the holder enough to scrap the unit, and the batteries and lantern were both Rayovac. The other six batteries tested OK.
Some of those factoids are ostensibly true. Eveready batteries probably are terrible for juggling, and I’m sure some cars in the carpool lane have had Eveready batteries rolling around inside them.
According to The Project Farm, the performance of these is similar to the Amazon Basics AA at a 300mA discharge rate, and a bit less than the Amazon Basics at a 100 mA rate. The Amazon Basics provided by far the best bang for the buck in his AA battery test. Accordingly, if these can be obtained for a significantly lower price, that makes them an excellent deal. The Amazon basics is currently $23.40 for a pack of 100, or 23.4 cents each. These are 24.5 cents each, slightly higher. Ergo, they are not as good of a value according to that tester’s results, but still a good value overall, and a much better deal than Duracell. And they don’t line Bezos’ pocket.
@werehatrack Thanks for the info! Project Farm is the best! One other thing to consider is that if you’re not VMP (but have Prime, or a $35 purchase) then shipping costs makes this even more of a meh.
@pixelated@werehatrack I really wasn’t impressed with Amazon Basics’ AA & AAA batteries. Maybe I just got a crappy batch, but I felt they were disappointing.
@phendrick You should gave seen the pile of power I left in the bathroom at the in-laws. Took two bottles of poo-pourri doused on it and then set on fire to quench that power pile. I’m lucky to have made it out alive.
I refuse to read the list any further till the word ‘currently’ is changed to ‘currency.’ And then I’ll stop at any subsequent typos and wait for them to be fixed. Considering how quickly I found that error, there’s bound to be more. This is definitely something a AAA battery would do.
Hopefully those who order these will get them in better shape than the ones I got from Side Deal. My box was caved in on one side when it showed up and when I opened it up, a couple of the batteries were busted and leaking.
Not really Meh’s fault as this was during the holiday rush, but I hope they ship these out in a bit better packaging now.
So wild that the Eveready battery company did such a good job ripping off a competitor’s commercial, that it changed it’s name for branding, and now sells Eveready by Energizer
@j37hr0
Huh? What competitor?
Energizer was the brand that Eveready applied to their first alkaline battery. The Energizers basically made their old carbon-zinc battery lines obsolete, and after a while they dropped the old brand from production and changed the company name accordingly. Now they’re resurrecting it, and they have even put out some carbon-zinc batteries again (Eveready Gold; they’re awful). Just exactly who thought this was a good idea is something their stockholders ought to be asking at the next meeting of the board.
@j37hr0
Oh, that. Parody is a protected form. And Duracell’s ad wasn’t all that clever; the Energizer Bunny was. The Energizer name predates the bunny by a bunch; Eveready was still a retail-products unit of Union carbide (pre-Bhopal) when the battery name was changed to Energizer, and by the time Eveready was sold to Ralston Purina, the old Eveready brand of carbon-zinc batteries was vanishing fast. Under Ralston, the tired old marketing was sharpened up with the adoption of the Energizer Bunny as the brand icon in 1989, but if I recall correctly, it was at least a decade before they first nudged Duracell out of the top slot in sales.
@j37hr0@werehatrack karma already got them. When Duracell let the bunny trademark lapse, Energizer spoofed the original Duracell commercial and their new bunny sporting sunglasses was a big hit. Problem for Energizer was people were already associating Duracell with pink bunnies and the ads actually resulted in increased market share for Duracell! Whoops. Eventually this turned around but still, they paid the price for swiping their competition’s mascot.
What I find inexplicable is that when Energizer decided to resurrect the old brand, they first introduced the abysmal Eveready Gold, which isn’t even an alkaline battery. It’s carbon-zinc, and terrible by modern standards. Then they gave the second-place medal to their off-price alkaline, calling it “Silver”, when the Gold had already caused some of us to think that these new “Eveready” units had to be counterfeits because they were Such Complete Crap. But the Silver is merely mediocre, and if you can get it cheap enough (such as here) then it’s actually packing more bang for the buck than their premium line. But NOT more bang per battery!
I kind of want to know how they sold over 100,000 of these today, and also how the 6th most common way of getting there was pastadrop.com, which redirects to the forums here.
Specs
What’s Included?
OR
Price Comparison
$70.40 for similar on Amazon AA Batteries
$53.76 for similar on Amazon AAA Batteries
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Aug 4 - Monday, Aug 8
What a load of fridge filler!
/image refrigerator
Neat! Now I can power my 55 XBox controllers!
@guybrush01 Pervert!
The Dark Side they are, yes.
/giphy terrifying-gloomy-plot
Something to fill the sheets you bought yesterday!
Does anyone remember this blast from the past?? With special thanks to @ACraigL…
In fact, it was from Feb 1, 2018… How time flies!
@shahnm
Is that Alfredo Garcia’s head up there? I wondered where it had gotten to.
@werehatrack I had to look up your reference…
@shahnm Oh man, that is a blast from the past. Thanks for revisiting it!
@werehatrack I actually know the reference from the Fletch line, “Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia and a cup of hot fat.”
I think I put it in there because Game of Thrones was hot at the time. Maybe.
@ACraigL @shahnm @werehatrack and those of us who are ancient know the reference from the Peckinpah movie of the early/mid seventies.
I don’t use alkalines any more, they leak too much!
/image
@awk I don’t use colostomy bags for the same reason.
@mike808 I didn’t even know you could power electronics from colostomy bags
@awk Amen!
@awk @mike808 Because not using them leaks less?
@awk @mike808 I thought it was because it’s so hard to find shoes to match your bag.
Can these be sent Overnight so I can survive the impending Ice Storm??
Oh, today’s deal is a pile of something alright.
Cheaper from Lowes or Home depot on black friday, if you can wait 9 months.
@lowlypeon
But those may be Rayovacs, which have leaked more than Duracell here
@werehatrack Really? This is obviously anecdotal, but I’ve been using them for ten years now and haven’t had s single one leak.
@lowlypeon The most recent brick (I didn’t buy it) seems somewhat better than the old ones for leakage, but they still don’t have the reliability or runtime of the others I’ve used. Last month, two leakers out of eight in a fluorescent emergency lantern damaged the holder enough to scrap the unit, and the batteries and lantern were both Rayovac. The other six batteries tested OK.
But my earlier experience was truly abysmal…
https://werehatrack.blogspot.com/2016/11/to-fix-or-not-to-fix-that-is-often.html?m=1
Some of those factoids are ostensibly true. Eveready batteries probably are terrible for juggling, and I’m sure some cars in the carpool lane have had Eveready batteries rolling around inside them.
According to The Project Farm, the performance of these is similar to the Amazon Basics AA at a 300mA discharge rate, and a bit less than the Amazon Basics at a 100 mA rate. The Amazon Basics provided by far the best bang for the buck in his AA battery test. Accordingly, if these can be obtained for a significantly lower price, that makes them an excellent deal. The Amazon basics is currently $23.40 for a pack of 100, or 23.4 cents each. These are 24.5 cents each, slightly higher. Ergo, they are not as good of a value according to that tester’s results, but still a good value overall, and a much better deal than Duracell. And they don’t line Bezos’ pocket.
@werehatrack Thanks for the info! Project Farm is the best! One other thing to consider is that if you’re not VMP (but have Prime, or a $35 purchase) then shipping costs makes this even more of a meh.
@werehatrack I should have known Project Farm tested them!
@werehatrack “We’re gonna test that”
@werehatrack: yeah, they’re great…when they’re in stock.
They have been sold out for about two months now.
The largest pack Amazon currently has is the 48-pack for $14.64.
So for now, I’d say this is a better deal since its in stock here on meh.
@pixelated @werehatrack I really wasn’t impressed with Amazon Basics’ AA & AAA batteries. Maybe I just got a crappy batch, but I felt they were disappointing.
/giphy affable-complex-toe
Why all the talk about “single A’s” and no mention of the quadruple A’s - AAAA ?
@jdutica not seeing talk of single A’s, but they do/did exist: larger than a D, some 6 volt lantern batteries contained 4 of them.
‘Piles of Power’
I see what you did there.
@phendrick You should gave seen the pile of power I left in the bathroom at the in-laws. Took two bottles of poo-pourri doused on it and then set on fire to quench that power pile. I’m lucky to have made it out alive.
That writeup gets a AAA.
Unfortunately, I’ve discovered I have much more in common with Energizer batteries than I’m comfortable admitting.
@mehcuda67
Been skipping the Flomax again?
I refuse to read the list any further till the word ‘currently’ is changed to ‘currency.’ And then I’ll stop at any subsequent typos and wait for them to be fixed. Considering how quickly I found that error, there’s bound to be more. This is definitely something a AAA battery would do.
@DonBirren Eveready batteries orders reach dressing on the side.
/giphy reach dressing
/giphy mopey-wailing-barley
10 year shelf life. How long have these sat on warehouse shelves?
@medz Manufactured Sept 2020…
@medz Manufactured September 2020… So less than 18 months.
@medz although, it is possible that they sat on pallets directly on the floor of the warehouse without ever touching a shelf.
@CBL_WV ok, so like 6 years left.
/giphy math!
Heads up!
Hopefully those who order these will get them in better shape than the ones I got from Side Deal. My box was caved in on one side when it showed up and when I opened it up, a couple of the batteries were busted and leaking.
Not really Meh’s fault as this was during the holiday rush, but I hope they ship these out in a bit better packaging now.
“Piles of Power”
“Eveready batteries speak French, badly.”
Funny because “batteries” in French is “piles”.
There, I explained a joke.
@jodamiller
I was about to do that, but you beat me to it.
Grated minds…
It’s been a while since Meh offered something I wanted to buy…can’t buy 3 per order anymore? Supermeh.
@t3hn4t3 You really wanted 300 or more batteries?
@kevinrs waaaaay too many kids toys.
/giphy fortunate-funny-cottonmouth
So wild that the Eveready battery company did such a good job ripping off a competitor’s commercial, that it changed it’s name for branding, and now sells Eveready by Energizer
@j37hr0
Huh? What competitor?
Energizer was the brand that Eveready applied to their first alkaline battery. The Energizers basically made their old carbon-zinc battery lines obsolete, and after a while they dropped the old brand from production and changed the company name accordingly. Now they’re resurrecting it, and they have even put out some carbon-zinc batteries again (Eveready Gold; they’re awful). Just exactly who thought this was a good idea is something their stockholders ought to be asking at the next meeting of the board.
@werehatrack the drumming bunny was originally a Duracell commercial.
@j37hr0
Oh, that. Parody is a protected form. And Duracell’s ad wasn’t all that clever; the Energizer Bunny was. The Energizer name predates the bunny by a bunch; Eveready was still a retail-products unit of Union carbide (pre-Bhopal) when the battery name was changed to Energizer, and by the time Eveready was sold to Ralston Purina, the old Eveready brand of carbon-zinc batteries was vanishing fast. Under Ralston, the tired old marketing was sharpened up with the adoption of the Energizer Bunny as the brand icon in 1989, but if I recall correctly, it was at least a decade before they first nudged Duracell out of the top slot in sales.
@j37hr0 @werehatrack karma already got them. When Duracell let the bunny trademark lapse, Energizer spoofed the original Duracell commercial and their new bunny sporting sunglasses was a big hit. Problem for Energizer was people were already associating Duracell with pink bunnies and the ads actually resulted in increased market share for Duracell! Whoops. Eventually this turned around but still, they paid the price for swiping their competition’s mascot.
@raymeh @werehatrack I guess I was unclear on the timeline.
Perhaps declaring this a “fake fact” was a bit too honest:
So I guess that means that they are worse than we think?
Fortunately, the testing says “not great, but good enough to be decent if you can get them cheap enough.” And these are cheap enough.
So, who came up with that list, anyway? More important, who proofread it?
My remotes better make sure their souls are prepared
I’d like to thank Meh for this page - here you can still share your thoughts - if you like or dislike a product
/giphy suspicious
What I find inexplicable is that when Energizer decided to resurrect the old brand, they first introduced the abysmal Eveready Gold, which isn’t even an alkaline battery. It’s carbon-zinc, and terrible by modern standards. Then they gave the second-place medal to their off-price alkaline, calling it “Silver”, when the Gold had already caused some of us to think that these new “Eveready” units had to be counterfeits because they were Such Complete Crap. But the Silver is merely mediocre, and if you can get it cheap enough (such as here) then it’s actually packing more bang for the buck than their premium line. But NOT more bang per battery!
I kind of want to know how they sold over 100,000 of these today, and also how the 6th most common way of getting there was pastadrop.com, which redirects to the forums here.
@kevinrs 100,000 batteries I meant
/giphy dreamy-decisive-drum
